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brick
noun- a good man UK, 1840
A term of approval. - someone with exceptionally good credit US, 2001
Collected in San Rafael, California, at a car dealership, in March 2001. - a person lacking social skills US
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 88, 1968
- a profit made fraudulently UK
- “Making brick” is slang for the various ways in which some [bus-] drivers and conductors defraud the Passenger Transport Executive. — The Guardian, 10 December 1979
- a sentence of ten years in jail AUSTRALIA, 1944
- a street tough person AUSTRALIA, 1840
- — Maureen Brooks and Joan Ritchie, Tassie Terms, p. 20, 1995
- a die that has been shaved on one face US, 1950
- — Thomas L. Clark, The Dictionary of Gambling and Gaming, p. 27, 1987
- in poker, a drawn card that fails to improve the hand US
- — John Vorhaus, The Big Book of Poker Slang, p. 8, 1996
- ten cartons of stolen cigarettes US
- — Bill Reilly, Big Al’s Official Guide to Chicagoese, p. 17, 1982
- a carton of cigarettes US
- — Reinhold Aman, Hillary Clinton’s Pen Pal, p. 22, 1906
- — Maledicta, pp. 266–267, Summer/Winter 1981: “By its slang, ye shall know it: the pessimism of prison life”
- a kilogram of, usually compressed, marijuana, or, less commonly, another drug US
- — Current Slang, p. 2, Summer 1967
- She had a brick of weed she was sellin’, and she didn’t want to go to the buy alone. — Reservoir Dogs, 1992
- Oh yeah? How much blow you do tonight? I heard they had a fuckin’ brick. — Copland, 1997
- Here was some dude, not even a chemistry major, coming on to you with mikes [microdots], grams, bricks, kilos and hundredweights. — Robert Sabbag, A Way with the Spoon [The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories], p. 351, 2001
- — Nick Brownlee, This Is Cannabis, p. 151, 2002
- marijuana UK
From the sense as a measurement of the drug. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 31, 1996
- crack cocaine US
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 281, 2003
- a ten pound note; the sum of ten pounds AUSTRALIA, 1914
From the colour of the note. After the introduction of decimal currency in 1966 the meaning changed to either “twenty dollars” (an equivalent value) or, most commonly, “ten dollars” (numerically the same). Neither of the new notes were brick coloured and the term has all but died out. - One race-dat at Flemington, a well-dressed stranger approached Porter and asked him, without any preamble, for “a brick” ($10). — Roy Higgins and Tom Prior, The Jockey Who Laughed, p. 82, 1982
- a pound sterling (£1) UK: SCOTLAND
- — Michael Munro, The Patter, Another Blast, 1988
- an Australian twenty-pound note AUSTRALIA
Because of its reddish colour. - — The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 10, 1989
- a four-man infantry patrol UK
Used by the British Army in Northern Ireland. - There was a fellow in the brick at the time who was a right pain in the arse. — Andy McNab, Immediate Action, p. 26, 1995
- an abandoned, partially consumed can or bottle of beer US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 2, October 2002
- a masculine-appearing transgendered woman US
- And many of the women were all too happy to focus on their apperance as they lived in terror of being “clocked”–street slang for being identified as trans–or being called a “brick”–a derogatory term for a trans woman who appears masculine. — Patrick Moore, The Advocate, p. 34, 27 March 2007
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